The training was paid for by the Re-new St Helens neighbourhood management project, which secured leverage funding for the training and equipment.

Wearing a thin spray of mud and wide smiles, 11-year-old friends Dawkin Erceg and Sam Brickley rode their Quad Bikes into the record books Saturday in the USA.

The Duluth boys were part of 1,632 Quad Bike riders in an unofficial breaking of the world record for the longest ATV parade as they rode on a five-mile trip through the streets of this small town along the North Shore.

After coming 55 machines short in its first attempt last June, the Silver Bay parade broke the previous best of 1,138 set by the Harland County Ridge Runners in rural Kentucky in 2006.

Parade organizer Les Schermerhorn announced the tally Saturday night to a capacity crowd at the Union Hall in Silver Bay.

“I said, ‘One. Six. Three. Two.’ And the roof went off the union hall,” she said.

To meet the Guinness Book of World Records standards, the Silver Bay parade organizers needed to film the parade at the beginning, middle and end of the route to verify their claimed totals. The footage will be sent to London, where Guinness officials will judge the race’s validity and rule on the parade in the next couple months, Schermer­horn said. The final count must be all ATVs, not three-wheelers or side-by-sides.

If the Silver Bay parade makes its way into the Guinness Book of World Records, competition from the same bunch in Kentucky as well as Hurley, Wis., and Wyoming will probably challenge the new mark, Schermerhorn said.

A quad bike, trailer and 100 litres of red diesel have been stolen from an outbuilding in Pancrasweek in Devon.

The burglary, which also included a chainsaw and a sprayer attached to the Yamaha Grizzly quad bike, took place between 5pm on Wednesday, June 10 and 5.30am on Friday June 12.

Police are appealing for information and can be contacted on 08542 777444. Please quote crime reference number CH 09 203.

A funding crisis has put the skids under a developer's plans to create the first legal, public dirt track for mini-moto fanatics in North Lincolnshire.

Applicant John Trought withdrew plans to transform farmland off Scotter Road in Bottesford, into a track for mini-motos, quad bikes and trial bikes, after North Lincolnshire Council asked him to carry out a noise impact assessment.

Mr Trought, 40, of Park Street, Messingham, said he couldn't afford the £2,000 needed to have the noise assessment completed by a qualified professional.

"We are trying to get a noise assessment done but it costs around £2,000," he said.

"There doesn't seem to be funding anywhere.